NOTAM Meetups: Autumn 2025

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Distinguished forum-dwellers!

I bring to you another season of SuperCollider Meetups facilitated by our friends at Notam! These online meetups will take place approximately once a month on Zoom at 7pm CET (Oslo Time):

SuperCollider meetup:
Meeting ID: 974 3258 0111
Link: Launch Meeting - Zoom

At these meetups, SuperCollider users (usually 2 per meetup) present a project, class library, instrument, or artistic practice featuring our favorite audio programming environment. These presentations are informal, vary in their format, and are intended to showcase the diversity and flexibility of expression our beloved SC permits.

If you’re interested in presenting a project/workflow/tool/whatever at one of the Meetups, send me a DM and I’ll find a slot for you - absolutely everyone is welcome to share! In the week before each meetup I’ll return here to present info about the forthcoming presenters, so be sure to follow this thread via the :bell: on the right!

All community events at Notam fall under the NOTAM Code of Conduct to make them as inclusive as possible. If you have accessibility related requests or questions about the meetup, please send me a message and I’ll do what I can to address them! (Regarding this, I still haven’t been able to find a secure video chat solution that doesn’t require login; these meetups have had considerable issues in the past with disruptive bots, trolls, etc. so until I find a suitable solution, the meetups require a Zoom account.)

Despite frequent requests, the meetups are unfortunately not recorded. One of Notam’s goals with these meetups is to keep them casual, inclusive, and low-pressure, and a previous host of the meetups found that recording them led to less engagement, fewer questions, etc. from participants. Also, we don’t really have the infrastructure to store/edit/publish the footage (Notam also hosts meetups for Max/MSP, spatial audio, etc.). Buuuuuttt…that doesn’t stop users/presenters from sharing their notes/slides/code on this forum or elsewhere!

The meetup dates for autumn 2025 will be:

2025-09-24T17:00:00Z (edited on September 16)
2025-10-15T17:00:00Z
2025-11-19T18:00:00Z
2025-12-17T18:00:00Z (edited on September 16)

See you there!

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Our first presenter this autumn will be @josephine - it’s gonna be great!

Joséphine Wolf Oberholtzer is a software engineer and occasional composer. She holds a PhD from Harvard University in music composition, where she focused on toolkits for symbolic composition via LilyPond and Python, and on massively-multichannel electro-acoustic music. Her doctoral thesis “A Computational Model of Music Composition” details multiple nesting layers of symbolic composition frameworks, composition-through-configuration, and the practicalities of document preparation pipelines. Since leaving academia, she has spent a decade writing and maintaining software at companies like Discogs, Capital One, and Cortico. She lives in Kingston, NY, USA with her husband, and their German shepherd dog.

Supriya is a Python API for SuperCollider - an alternative language client - in active development for more than a decade. This workshop will demonstrate usage of Supriya via an interactive Jupyter notebook, detailing its “context” interface for interacting with realtime and non-realtime servers, its support for threaded and async concurrency models, its tools for natively building SynthDef graphs, and (time-permitting) diversions into API design, unit testing, and other more advanced topics.

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P.S. I still have an available presenter slot for Wednesday’s meetup - please send me PM if you have a SuperCollider project/workflow/whatever that you’d like to share with the community. It could be something you’re looking for feedback on, a work in progress, or an opportunity to present your research/a paper, for example. Please don’t hesitate to get in touch! :slight_smile:

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Aha, I made a whoopsie!! There was a little miscommunication with Notam, so there will be two changes to the schedule (I’ll edit my first post to reflect the changes):

  • the meetup planned for tomorrow will happen next week instead 2025-09-24T17:00:00Z
  • the meetup scheduled for December will not be happening; there will just be three meetups this fall :cry:

Sorry for the last-minute reschedule, and thanks for your patience - see you next week! :slight_smile:

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Reminder that the first meetup of the fall is tomorrow - see you there! :slight_smile:

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The meetup is starting now! :slight_smile:

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We’ve got a real barn-burner lined up for next week! :slight_smile: Here’s a bit about our first presenter:

Axel Barratt-Due is a sound artist, musician, composer and performance artist based in Oslo and Berlin. They hold a bachelor’s degree in classical accordion from the Royal Danish Academy of Music (2009) and a master’s degree in sound art from the University of the Arts in Berlin and they are currently a fellow at the Norwegian Academy of Music.

In live performances, Axel Barratt-Due performs under the pseudonym Canilla - here they build new instruments out of old accordions played with compressed air, live coding and DIY electronics. The music is a mix of synthesized data, acoustic mechanics and dark poetry. Canilla’s work has been shown on stages, festivals and clubs such as Black Box Teater, Transmediale, Bergen Festival, Piksel, Insomnia, HAU Berlin, National Theatre, Stamsund Theatre Festival, Lecken, Fusion and London Royal Opera House. Their work has been shown on stages and festivals such as Black Box Teater, Transmediale, Bergen Festival, Piksel, Insomnia, HAU Berlin, Stamsund Theatre Festival and London Royal Opera House.

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And our second presenter is @pulusound!

pulu, a.k.a. miranda kastemaa, is a Helsinki-based musician, programmer and sound designer working since 2002 with DAWs, livecoding, retrocomputing, field recording, game development, sensors, microcontrollers, game boys, piano and more, to create musical-visual instruments, interactive installations, participatory performances, as well as plain old tunes.

projects i could talk about, depending on how much time there is:

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The meetup starts in 10 minutes! The link is here - see you soon! :slight_smile:

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For those of us interested in the literature Axel mentioned on Wednesday, here are some titles:

Patricia McCormack - The Ahuman Manifesto
Gilbert Simondon - On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects
Maurice Blanchot - Awaiting Oblivion

Enjoy! :slight_smile:

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Our last meetup of the year is already next week :cry: but it’s gonna be great! Our first presenter is @mphonic:

Bhob Rainey is a Philadelphia-based composer, saxophonist, and sound designer celebrated for his innovative contributions to contemporary, experimental, and improvised music. A recipient of the prestigious Pew Fellowship in the Arts and co-founder of the influential improvisational duo nmperign, Rainey has garnered acclaim for his groundbreaking work across disciplines, including collaborations in theater, dance, and visual art. With performances and commissions spanning prestigious venues and festivals worldwide, his work continues to challenge boundaries of musical thought and instrumental technique.

I will talk primarily (based on forum feedback) about xynthii – what it is, the history, the usability considerations, the nascent modular / routing framework behind it. I will leave some time to either answer questions about other parts of my career or expand on aspects of xynthii.

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Our last presenter for 2025 is @heretogo!

Bio:
James Annett is a multi-instrumentalist and composer currently based in Montreal. His music explores the intersections between diverse styles of music including avant-garde jazz, contemporary classical and experimental rock music. His artistic practice is based in improvisation and incorporates dance and interactivity. He has performed alongside Roscoe Mitchell, Malcolm Goldstein, as a member of the Ratchet Orchestra and in his trio Say Spirit with Colin Fisher and Josh Cole. He performs regularly at events and festivals in Canada including Suoni Per Il Popolo, FIMAV and the Off Jazz Festival. He has presented his research-creation at institutions such as IRCAM, CCRMA, CIRMMT, and the Johns Hopkins University Peabody Institute.

Presentation:
I will introduce my technical and aesthetic approach and then demonstrate specific techniques related to phrasing, polyphony and layering of sounds. I will focus on a few UGens that help me achieve this (Demand-rate, SendReply). Finally I will present some experimental work using Dfsm to organize musical structure.

Links:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLri2e8CzF38bLbcaAlZlvvt40tWucxeSu

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The last meetup of 2025 starts in 10 minutes - see you there! :slight_smile: